Import images from your camera

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There are many ways to add images to your Photos library. In this video, Derrick shows you how to copy pictures from a digital camera to your Photos library. Once the images are in the library, you can use all of Photos advanced features to edit and share them.

- [Instructor] Well, so far,…we've added pictures from a hard drive.…Right here, these came in that way.…And we took a few shots with an iPhone.…And those just automatically came in,…'cause of the cool iCloud connectivity.…So, I guess we should also do the old fashioned way,…where we take a memory card out of our camera…and put it in the memory card reader slot of our computer.…So, that's what I'm going to do right now.…And, if you want to go super old school,…then you can take a USB cord,…connect it to your camera,…and then connect it to your computer…and the same thing will happen.…

I'm going to go memory card.…At least, I'm only going to go semi-old school.…Let me go ahead and push this in.…This is from some time I spent in Maui…and we can see the pictures just kind of…flowing right in here.…We got all sorts of stuff.…Now, you'll notice that, when you look at these shots,…that they have...…Let's make the thumbnail a little bit bigger…so we can see this.…You see we have a JPEG.…Well, that's what that J stands for.…

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11/30/2016

Manage, enhance, and share your photos in a variety of new ways using Photos for macOS. In this course, photographer, author, and educator Derrick Story takes a deep dive into this Apple photo management application. To start things off, Derrick goes over the application's new features, including Memories—which automatically scans your library to create photo collections—object and scene recognition, and a new editing slider called Brilliance.

Later, he walks you through how to use the application's basic editing tools, as well as more advanced elements like the histogram, a graphical chart of the tones in your pictures. Learn how to share your images to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, work with video taken on a camera or smartphone, and tap into the power of iCloud to access your images from your personal devices.

Are you still using OS X El Capitan and its older version of Photos, Photos for OS X? You may want to check out Derrick's Photos for OS X Essential Training course, which covers all of the features in Photos 1.0.